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GodFish posted:I mostly listen to History Podcasts but informational ones are good too, and I've enjoyed listening to literary podcasts if it's something I'm familiar with. Some of the ones I've got are That's a good list and I'd also recommend Age of Napoleon and Ottoman History Podcast. Lions Led By Donkeys is my new jam though, its basically The Dollop for military history with socialist army guys
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stealie72 posted:It Could Happen Here is the scariest apocalypse fiction, and seems entirely plausible. It could happen here is an amazing podcast because every time I’ve talked about it, someone has done the exact same argument of “there’s no way that a civil war could ever happen in America, that podcast is stupid” Then I say “listen to it, he addresses all the points you are making in the very first episode” And then they keep arguing until I stop responding.
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https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1218894471175311367?s=20 Short version: Taking a long break after 1905 to finish the book. Then he'll take his time to finish Russia, which will be the end of the show. Hasn't yet decided what his next big project will be.
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I have never listened to Haiti anyway (I took a hiatus from the podcast at that time for reasons not related to the choice of topic) and by the point he's done with Russia and I'll have listened to Haiti, I might as well listen to France again, and so on, and so on.
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Yeah I think about relistening to France every time I see Paris in the news.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah I think about relistening to France every time I see Paris in the news. There's some real cool parallels between France (all three, to be honest) and Russia.
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rotinaj posted:It could happen here is an amazing podcast because every time I’ve talked about it, someone has done the exact same argument of “there’s no way that a civil war could ever happen in America, that podcast is stupid” Oh, USA is definitely closer to a Ukraine/Yugoslavia scenario than it's ever been outside of, y'know, the first Civil War.
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"Civil war could never happen in America" is quite the spicy take given uh... previous events.
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Jan 19, 2020 21:38
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We're talking about people who haven't learned anything from 2016.
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It Could Happen Here is the only podcast I ever quit on due to it stressing me the hell out, and I listen to Knowledge Fight constantly.
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Spoeank posted:It Could Happen Here is the only podcast I ever quit on due to it stressing me the hell out, and I listen to Knowledge Fight constantly. Dan's dulcet tone relaxes us all.
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I think what's most interesting about the history of France's revolutions is that if you do the numbers, for a long while, every generation would've had a chance at taking part in the overthrow of a government, and I think France still hasn't outdone the interval between the Paris Commune and the fall of France in WW2. So I wonder how much every mass protest in France has an undercurrent of possibly being the one that restarts the trend. Grand Fromage posted:"Civil war could never happen in America" is quite the spicy take given uh... previous events. I get the idea of being dismissive, since part of what prevents a civil war is just the sheer power of the norms that keep people thinking that a civil war is unthinkable. Of course, that doesn't actually help with dealing with the people who are already working themselves up towards breaking that norm, and it's better to be proactive anyways. I don't really want to wade into the particulars of how messy and horrible and awful a potential civil war would be though. I have a hard enough time dealing with the potential for some kind of coup in the capital, which right now seems like it would probably be opposed by the bulk of the US military.
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VanSandman posted:There's some real cool parallels between France (all three, to be honest) and Russia. The Bolsheviks very consciously patterned themselves on the path of the French Revolution, following Marx in that regard. One of (not only) reason for the Great Terror was Stalin trying to prove Trotsky wrong that the USSR had entered its Thermidorean period, by showing it was still in the Jacobin phase. The very term Great Terror was a callback to the Reign of Terror. Speaking of Marx and the French Revolution, he was also very confused why the Civil War in the US didn't help usher in a radical revolution in the northern states a la the Revolutionary Wars in France.
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Megazver posted:Oh, USA is definitely closer to a Ukraine/Yugoslavia scenario than it's ever been outside of, y'know, the first Civil War. Are Americans so bored these days they imagine themselves to be almost Libya somehow
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Echo Chamber posted:https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1218894471175311367?s=20 I haven't listened to Russia yet, so maybe all of this background is incredible and worth it (I'll find out eventually--I'm on Haiti now), but when I saw that he's nowhere near 1917 after this many episodes I was pretty disappointed. It makes sense that he'll end after Russia given that it's basically gone in scope from a season of the Revolutions podcast to a History of the Russian Revolution(s) podcast, but I wish he'd pared it down so he could have done Cuba and/or Iran. That said, ending on the enormous one does make some sense, so it's not the end of the world or anything. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Jan 21, 2020 |
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Thanks to all for the Fall of Civilisation recommendations; really an amazingly good podcast. Somewhat surprised, positively, by the British History Podacst as well, though I’m holding out hope David Crowther will recover and get back to the normal schedule, since I’m far from done with The History of England
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I finally got to the most recent episode of Tides of History so now I'm listening to The Fall of Rome, his earlier podcast. It's really strange listening to him stumble over his words in an echoey room after the (over?) produced style of Tides of History. I think it really hits its stride in episode 5, about the collapse of Roman Britain. He does this thing where he imagines how various characters (a garrison commander in the North, a local aristocrat in the South East) would slowly adapt to the absence of Imperial control and end up looking more like local warlords and petty kings. It's really clever. After reading through this thread I've got a list of podcasts to try (thanks), but I'm always up for more recommendations that match my weird requirements: * Ad free because I listen to them while I fall asleep (don't mind paying) * Not too modern because I don't wanna be bummed out when I'm trying to sleep. I had to stop Revolutions at the Haiti episodes because it was too depressing. I know it's stupid but as long as all the death and misery happens before like, 1800, then I can handle it. * Not too narrative. I think Tides of History is impressive because of the emphasis on themes and shifts, and his ability to abstract vertically into big picture stuff. I'm less impressed when someone just progresses horizontally through a narrative, and I don't wanna feel like I'm lost because I can't remember the name of some dude from three episodes ago.
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Well, I was going to recommend the History of Japan, but many of the series in that podcast are both about the post-1800s history and very depressing.
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There are lots that aren't though. It's still a good podcast if you skip the episodes about babies being polluted to death or whatever.
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Anyone listen to The Road to Now? Have a coworker trying to push it on me.
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Its been posted https://twitter.com/HardcoreHistory/status/1222759753874427905 Its 3 and half loving hours, looks like focusing on Alexander the Great's mom
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OH gently caress I LOVE OLYMPIAS,THIS OWNS
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The Glumslinger posted:Its been posted Are snake girls the horse girls of the ancient world? 
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I thought they were the church girls.
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Rody One Half posted:OH gently caress I LOVE OLYMPIAS,THIS OWNS
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Can anyone recommend a podcast, or single episodes, that covers historical mysteries? Astonishing Legends scratched an itch i didn't know i had with their shows on things like Flight 19, and the Nazi Bell, and things that are just so old/obscure/bizarre that no one really knows anything about it, like Gobekli Tepe or Oak Island. I've pretty much exhausted their library of that stuff and I'm looking for more. I'm not at all interested in ghost stories or UFO sightings though, and they love that stuff on their show. oh dope fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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The Glumslinger posted:Its been posted Just an FYI to those who haven't listened yet, this episode isn't really all that focused on Olympias even though Dan claims it will be at the start of it. It's more of a brief rundown of Alexander the Great's rise to power, and the immediate aftermath and consequences as a result of his death. Olympias jumps in and out of the story and by Dan's own admission that's because he's working from sparse historical record where Olympias will just up and vanish for huge chunks of the story, but still bear it in mind.
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Anything on Organized Labor? Just anything, not necessarily mysteries and scandals. I'll take simple exposition for now.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Anything on Organized Labor? Just anything, not necessarily mysteries and scandals. I'll take simple exposition for now. Inward empire, specifically the soldiers of capital and great railway strike episodes.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Anything on Organized Labor? Just anything, not necessarily mysteries and scandals. I'll take simple exposition for now. IMO Inward Empire is the best historical podcast out there, and he focuses a lot on American labor history
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oh dope posted:Can anyone recommend a podcast, or single episodes, that covers historical mysteries? Astonishing Legends scratched an itch i didn't know i had with their shows on things like Flight 19, and the Nazi Bell, and things that are just so old/obscure/bizarre that no one really knows anything about it, like Gobekli Tepe or Oak Island. I've pretty much exhausted their library of that stuff and I'm looking for more. I'm not at all interested in ghost stories or UFO sightings though, and they love that stuff on their show. Generation Why has a handful of historical mystery episodes scattered here and there (Titanic Conspiracy, Bermuda Triangle, Dyatlov Pass), mostly before episode 150 or so, but they’re primarily murder themed.
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oh dope posted:Can anyone recommend a podcast, or single episodes, that covers historical mysteries? Astonishing Legends scratched an itch i didn't know i had with their shows on things like Flight 19, and the Nazi Bell, and things that are just so old/obscure/bizarre that no one really knows anything about it, like Gobekli Tepe or Oak Island. I've pretty much exhausted their library of that stuff and I'm looking for more. I'm not at all interested in ghost stories or UFO sightings though, and they love that stuff on their show. New England Legends might be of interest. The caveat is there are a lot of UFOs and ghosts in it, but they also cover a wide range of genuine historical folklore from the New England states. Each episode is only 10-15 minutes long too, so not too much of an investment.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Anything on Organized Labor? Just anything, not necessarily mysteries and scandals. I'll take simple exposition for now. Belabored, focused largely on current events, analysis and interviews. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/category/podcast
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evilpicard posted:Belabored, focused largely on current events, analysis and interviews. Thanks Inward empire is amazing and highly recommendable
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Inward Empire starts out with two long episodes*, but it's totally worth it. I feel like it's laying the groundwork for the fundamental bases of conflict in future chapters. (Maybe 3 hours isn't very long by the standards of the history podcast thread, I dont know.) It reminds me of the English Civil War part of Revolutions, which isn't as engrossing with regard to military strategy and tactics, but hammers home the problem with property rights as the basis of all rights, which repeats in every revolution with a liberal constituency.
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I keep bouncing in and out of Behind the Bastards due to despair overload but I really enjoyed today's episode on Basil Zaharoff and eagerly await the next one.
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AceOfFlames posted:I keep bouncing in and out of Behind the Bastards due to despair overload but I really enjoyed today's episode on Basil Zaharoff and eagerly await the next one. I haven't listened to this episode yet but if you haven't watched it, you should watch the 1980s British TV miniseries Reilly, Ace of Spies. Zaharoff (played by Leo McKern from The Prisoner) is one of the main characters. It was also directed by Martin Campbell and it very much feels like his audition for eventually doing Bond movies (Sam Neill is the titular character, and he was up for Bond around this same time as well).
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